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60s garage rock band The Belles

In the roll call of 1960s garage band heroes, the Chocolate Watchband reside at the very top. Their notoriety derives from the handful of singles and LPs that they made, balanced between the Watchband’s own intense Anglophilic blueswailing, and mysterioso studio trickery on the half of producer Ed Cobb. Their best-known cut is probably ‘Let’s Talk About Girls’, which appeared on the seminal 1972 garage band sampler “Nuggets,”, but the Chocolate Watchband have many more such gems within their…

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Thanks to vintage record collectors, the Rising Storm, a band that recorded its first album 50 years ago, is reliving a dream that began in prep school.

Introduction to The Leaves Garage rock group The Leaves are remembered for their most successful version of “Hey Joe,” which was a hit during the mid-60s music era. Like their peer and competitor the Byrds, the Leaves were also weaned by The Beatles’ music; both bands also hailed from Los Angeles. Formed by bassist Jim

As Bay City Mayor Christopher Shannon gets ready to dedicate Question Mark and the Mysterians' 1966 hit "96 Tears" as the city's official rock and roll song, a local historian contests it should be the community's official song with genre trappings.

The Individuals. I was living in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The year was 1964. I was thirteen. I was in my first rock band. Beatlemania was running wild and millions of kids across the USA were buying cheap Japanese electric guitars and drum kits and forming garage bands. My dad bought me a set of drums made by a company called Kent and I formed a group called The Continentals. We covered tunes by The Beatles and our set list included “Louie Louie,” “I Got My Mojo Workin,” “Shout,” “Glad All…

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